What if the most useful thing you could do next week – is less? Less busywork, less doom, less outsourcing your thinking. This week, we make the case for letting go in #TheEdit.

• This is why you’re drowning in busywork. The ability to do everything ourselves may be satisfying, but it can gradually overload us with busywork without our noticing – The New York Times
• The AI world of 2050: What’s actually possible. A look at what could be if we ignore the doomers and make the most of AI – Big Think  
• Leaders need to stop pretending they can predict the future. In times of great uncertainty, certainty is ever more alluring.  And yet, it is precisely in these times of precarity that leaders must trade their hubris for humility – TIME
• “The fierce urgency of now”. A conversation with two people shaped by Vincent Harding – Martin Luther King Jr.’s close friend and the author of his “Beyond Vietnam” speech – about what his vision of radical love demands of us now – On Being  
• Think twice about asking an LLM for strategic advice. Researchers say you’ll got “trendslop” in return – Harvard Business Review  
• I was a happiness researcher. Here’s why I quit and cycled the world. By cycling to the world’s happiest places, Dr Christopher Boyce learnt how to put his research into practice to finally reach true happiness – Science Focus 
• The loneliest man. Why men are struggling with social connection, and what can help. Listen to an author-narrated reading from David Waters on his essay on the male loneliness epidemic – The Beautiful Truth Podcast